... SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. THE fruits of over-speculation continue to affect India in a remarkable manner. The last mails from the East bring intelligence from Bombay of a ruin- ous character. Failures, the papers say, take place every day, and mercantile men know not where it may end; few houses are considered safe, and commerce is crippled to such an extent that it appears quite in a chaotic ...

... The correspondent of the Morning Post, writing from Stockholm, says:- It was not difficalt to be foreseen that the trial of Pastor Lindbaok for the murders he had committed at Siibodal would not occupy much time after the quali- fied confession which had been made by him with re- gard to them, more especially when it is remembered that in this country the formalities of a trial are to a great ...

... MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT ISLE WORTH On Wednesday evening, about eight o'clock, as some men were at work on the banks of the stream at Isle- worth, they heard sereams as from s.female. On pro- eeading to the spot they found a man standing up with his throat cut in a ghastly manner. A short distance from the spot, in a garden path, they dis- covered the dead body of a woman, with her head ...

... T'lia Com. Trade KASK-LAJTE, MASCH 6—Scarcely any alteration in tba value of English Wheat at this day's market, supply beiug- moderate, but trade ruled dull; white at 38s to 46s red,, 3is to 41s; and Talavera, 44s to 50s per quarter. A clear- ance was not made, and several samples came to hand poor condition. Inferior foreign dull of sale and rather cheaper; but there is a fair demand for ...

... It may be stated, as a general principle, that the safest mode of procedure is to begin with a clear definition of the nature and object of the undertaking, without which difficulties will probably arise that are not easy of remedy after a project has been fairly started. In the first place, then, it may be asked— WHAT SHOULD BE THE AIM OF THE PROMOTERS OF A WORKMEN'S EXHIBITION ? I will ...

... OUR MISCELLANY. Wanted for Chemical Purposes. — A lady dissolved in tears. How to Learn all your Defects.-Quarrel with your best friend. Sad Young Men.—Moral reflection by a police- man It seems te me that with many young men the most approved method of winding up the night is reeling home. An Irish Bull.— Pat, said a gentleman to his servant, in the conscription time in New York, « What's ...

... A Sleepless Man.-At present there is a seldier, ;ays the Philadelphia Press, at the Chestnnt-hiM Millitary Hospital, Philadelphia, who has not slept for i single moment for fourteen years and six months. Why it is that he cannot or does not sleep is as much a, mystery to him as it is to many scientific gen t.' emeik, who, having had their attention called to him, have been astonished in their ...

... THE NEWS BUDGET. The Toulon Fleet.-The Pays gives semi-offi- oially the explanation which common sense had already suggested of the alarming rumours that the Toulon fleet had received sudden orders to arm its gun-boats. The only object was to give the ships more air on account of the cholera, which, according to the latest news, is fast disappearing. Cure for Bite of Mad Dogs.- Take ...

... CANADA. TORONTO, Nov. 14. Two battalions of volunteers have been ordered to be ready for frontier duty against the Fenians. The 60th Regiment has been ordered from Montreal to Western Canada. ...

... MINCING-LANE, Nov. 28. — The Sugar market has opened quietly. About 3,000bags of Mauritius sold; brows 30s to 33s 3d; and 200 hhds. of Porto Rico, at 38s. Refined quiet, but without material change in value The Coffee market continues very firm for all colonial descriptions There is less business doing in Tea, but firm prices are paid —No sales reported in Rum, Rice, and Saltpetre White ...

... EPITOME OF NEWS. A woman aged 105 has just died at Birmingham; her death was occasioned by an accident. The great flower-show of the season at the Crytal Palace will take place on the 20th May. The Earl of Durham is about to erect a church for the benefit of the pitmen of his lordship's collieries. A grand Exchange for Manchester is spoken of. It has been thought extraordinary that so ...

... THE GREAT FIRE IN CONSTANTI- NOPLE. The Levant Herald gives the followiag particulars of the great fire in Constantinople, some account of which has already appeared by telegraphShortly before midnight last night (Sept. 5) one of the most de- stractivefires whichhas devastate 1 thecapitalforthirty years, broke out on the Stamb -ul side of the Horn, in a house behind Baktche capoussi, and ...